On Jul 11, 7:06 am, Peter Franks wrote:
Roger Coppock wrote:
The rise in the global mean surface temperature since 1985 was not
due to sunspots, solar cycle length, solar magnetic field, cosmic
rays,
or solar irradiance. These factors were all causing cooling during
the
period, if they were doing anything at all.

Please read this article and look carefully at the 6-part chart:
http://environment.newscientist.com/...s-activity-rul...

What is your view of this report?

http://www.umweltluege.de/pdf/Gamma_...nd_Climate.pdf

Classic cherry picking in this report. Instead of using
global means as a scientist would, the authors talk about:
-- streamflow in the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.
-- elevations of Lake Victoria in Africa,
-- and a dozen other variables from as many places.
(For examples, see Fig. 1 of the report.)

It looks like even the cosmic ray record is
cherry picked here. Huancayo, Peru is not the
longest record, the World Data Center for
Cosmic Rays hasn't seen any data from there
since 1992. Please see:
http://www.env.sci.ibaraki.ac.jp/ftp...ca/cardformat/
If the authors were doing science and not cherry
picking, they would use the longest data record,
Climax, Colorado. Please see the chart near the end of:
http://www.env.sci.ibaraki.ac.jp/ftp/pub/WDCCR/READ.ME